Hello Mercosur! Here comes another great country of yours that has been leading in physical economy-led growth, the Argentine republic. A recent governance innovation in Argentina was the bringing of legislation on science down to the provincial level. The news caption below reports on the encouraging development.

Colombia is no mere provider of dark images of drug wars and phoney rebellions that seem to end nowhere. Science research has been scaling up in the country, as shown by massive funding of relevant efforts.

Below is a news caption that highlights the encouragement of the Colombian government on project proponents to apply for funding from out of the massive cache of funds (rather than cache of arms) for research.